Bible Commentaries

Exodus 19:15 — Esposas San Pablo recomienda la continencia cuando la gente tiene que rezar, 1 Corintios vii. En el templo pagano de Epidauro se colocó esta inscripción: "Sean castos los que entren aquí". (Clemente de Alejandría, strom. 5.)

Exodus 40:2 — Month of the second year, ver. 15. The first day of every month was kept with some degree of solemnity, though it was not a day of rest. (Numbers xxxiii. 11.; 1 Kings xx. 5.; &c.) (Calmet)

1 Chronicles 21:26 — Fuego, para atestiguar su aprobación. (Worthington; Tirinus) Ver Génesis iv. 4., y 2 Paralipomenon vii. 1. (Calmet) &mdash- Este altar representaba la cruz, sobre la cual se ofrecía la Víctima de nuestra reconciliación [Jesucristo]. (Du Hamel)

Psalms 17:18 — Para mi. Puede aludir al gigante Jesbibenob, oa Saúl, que lo rodeaba por todos lados; (1 Reyes xxiii. 26., y 2 Reyes xxi. 15 .; Calmet) y, en general, a todos sus adversarios temporales o espirituales. (Worthington)

Isaiah 63:18 — Nothing; holding them in the greatest contempt. Epiphanes though he should make them easily change their religion. His persecution lasted only three years and a half. --- Sanctuary. 1 Machabees i. 23, 49, 57., and iii. 45.

Isaiah 8:3 — Prophetess. The blessed Virgin [Mary], (St. Chrysostom, &c.) or to his wife. He gives his son a different name from Emmanuel, (chap. vii. 14.) that they might not be confounded. --- Hasten. Hebrew Mahershalalchashbaz, ver. 1. (Haydock)

Jeremiah 16:19 — Ellos. Después del cautiverio, muchos se convirtieron, Ester viii. Y 1 Esdras vi. 21. Edom fue obligado a someterse a la circuncisión. Pero esto no era nada en comparación con las multitudes que abrazaron el evangelio.

Jeremiah 35:19 — Ante mí, en una situación honorable (1 Paralipomenon ii. 55.) sobre el templo. No era necesario que fueran levitas. (Calmet) &mdash Esto lo buscaban, ya que eran extraños de Madian en el país, ver. 7. (Menoquio)

Daniel 1:4 — Blemish. Deformed people were excluded the throne, or the king’s presence. (Procopius 1.) --- Science; well educated, or apt to learn. They were first to be taught the Chaldee letters, which then differed from the Hebrew. (Calmet)

Numbers 3:22 — Quinientos, expresados ​​por la letra c, según Kennicott se han puesto por 200, que los hebreos denotan con una letra similar, r. Ver 2 Reyes xxiii. 8 y 1 Paralipomenon xi. 11, por otros errores. (Haydock)

Numbers 32:42 — Canath. This town is reckoned among those of Jair, (1 Paralipomenon ii. 23,) either because Nobe conquered it under his banners, or because it fell to the share of Jair, after the death of Nobe. (Calmet)

Numbers 32:42 — Canath. Este pueblo se cuenta entre los de Jair, (1 Paralipomenon ii. 23), ya sea porque Nobe lo conquistó bajo sus estandartes, o porque cayó en manos de Jair, después de la muerte de Nobe. (Calmet)

Malachi 3:8 — Afligir. Literalmente, "perforar". Septuaginta, "suplantar" (Haydock) o patear, 1 Reyes ii. 29. Pero el término aplicado a Heli es diferente. Aquí significa clavar o irritar. (Calmet) &mdash- Diezmos: el pago es el más estrictamente ordenado. (Worthington)

Acts 23:1 — With an entire good conscience. With an upright sincerity. But St. Paul is far from excusing himself from all sin. He laments elsewhere his blind zeal in persecuting the Christians. See 1 Corinthians xv. 9. (Witham)

Revelation 18:10 — ¡Pobre de mí! ¡Pobre de mí! San Agustín nos informa que la gente de las provincias orientales y de las ciudades más remotas, lloraron públicamente en esta ocasión. (De Civ. Dei. Lib. 1, cap. Xxxiii.)

Revelation 4:3 — Y él ... era a la vista como el jaspe, [1] o tenía la apariencia de jaspe, en cuanto a los colores con los que aparecía, etc. (Witham) [BIBLIOGRAFÍA] Similis erat aspectui jaspidis, griego: omoios orasei iaspidi.

Expanded Esther 6:4 — Power. All power is from God, and to be respected, even though the magistrate should sometimes abuse his authority. (Worthington) (Romans xiii. 1.) --- They must render an account to the common master, 2 Paralipomenon xix. 6.

Baruch 9:19 — Modin. Their remains were seen there long after. (Eusebius) --- It is wonderful that they should be shewn at Antioch. (St. Jerome, loc.) --- But these were the relics of the seven brothers, 2 Machabees vii. 1. (Calmet)

Letter of Jeremiah 1:18 — Scenopegia. The dedication was observed by the people bearing branches, in memory of their late forlorn condition on the mountains. (Haydock) --- See ver. 2. --- Fire. This feast occurred in Tisri, 2 Esdras viii. 1, 14. (Calmet)

1 Samuel 12:9 — Hasor. See Judges iv. 1. --- Moab. Jephte delivered the people from the hands of the Ammonites, who claimed all that country, Judges xi. 15. Eglon had been slain by Aod, before the Chanaanites enslaved Israel. (Calmet)